Cybersecurity Glossary

Proactive Security

A proactive security approach is the practice of taking measures to predict and prevent a breach before it ever happens.

Proactive security teams fix security gaps before they can be exploited and mitigate their highest risks to stay ahead of potential attackers. Meanwhile, a reactive approach involves detecting incidents in-process or after the fact and responding, for example by implementing security solutions in response to a breach that already occurred. Proactive security emphasizes prediction and prevention over detection and response.

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